Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Mon 23rd Jun 2003 02:31 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes If you have a mixed network like I do sometimes you have to compromise. At my job we run Windows, Linux and a sole Mac (Graphics dept.) and lets face it, when you do consulting work and if you design and develop custom applications you have to be able to develop for your clients platform and as much as I hate it, it's a Windows world. Before I used to have 2 workstations, one Windows and one Linux, or I had to dual boot. In the past, virtual machines have been lacking. Either they were too slow or lacking a certain pizazz to get the job done. Enter VMWare Workstation 4.
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
redhat 9, vmware and heavy IO
by boris on Mon 23rd Jun 2003 08:28 UTC

vmware 4 sucks on my redat 9 system. Ok, It's a PII350 with 256 MB RAM and I have XP as guest OS, but with a kernel.org standard kernel I do not have this problem:
Harddisk access from XP (on it's virtual disk) causes my system to hang for seconds. I cannot interact in any way.
This happens only with my redhat9 kernel not with the standard kernel. Any Idea ??